Department of
Corporate and Digital Development

Digital Futures conference 2022

The 2022 Digital Futures events mirrored the popular 2021 event formats. Each event engaged females across the Territory to discuss their personal stories, hear business issues faced and network with other females interested in technology.

Three events were held:

  • Confidence and resilience in Digital panel session held as part of International Women’s Day celebrations
  • Webinar Paving the Digital Way with 5 keynote speakers and panel session Binary Birds
  • Special keynote Ita Buttrose AC, OBE presented ‘Women in Business’ during October Business Month.

The highlight event being the webinar which lived-streamed across Australia. Viewers are still able to watch the presentation videos from our amazing keynote speakers.

Confidence and resilience in digital

On Thursday 17 March 2022, to celebrate International Women’s Day, Digital Futures (DF) partnered with the NT Australian Computing Society (ACS) to deliver a free panel session called Confidence and Resilience in Digital.

The event facilitated discussions on how women working in digital, technical and ICT professions can build confidence and resilience in an ever-evolving tech landscape.

Each speaker drew on their own stories and experiences to formulate their answers and address how women in Digital can build confidence and resilience.

The event was reported as a great success, and the post even survey gave ratings of 8.25 out of 10 and commenting the quality as very good to inspiring.

Keynote speakers were:

  • Karen Hawkes (Director of Captovate)
  • Karina Bourne (Director of Kinetic IT)
  • Bel Cook (Digitally Buzzed Founder)
  • Camille Fong Lim (Regional Manager at SRA Information Technology)
  • Peta Hine (Traineeship Program Manager at NEC Australia), winner of our Digital Futures sponsored award Progression of Women in ICT from the NT Digital Excellence Awards.

Paving the Digital Way

Our exciting webinar was live streamed on Thursday 16 June 2022 from the Darwin Convention Centre.

Headphones were donned and speaker volumes adjusted to hear every word uttered. Our female digital legends shared their ideas, experiences, challenges and successes on how they brought their careers and technology to fruition.

Viewers were treated to a range of topics from STEAM (science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics), to how 2 Territory girls ended up working at Google and, as Ally Watson highlighted in her presentation… ‘there are more men named Andrew running ASX 200 companies than women!’

We had Vanya Bosiocic and Bel Cook provide an update of what they are up to now.

If you weren’t able to tune in on the day, don’t worry, we’ve made the presentations into videos for you.

Keynote speakers

This years keynote speakers were:

Women in Business with Ita Buttrose AC, OBE

On Thursday 20 October, Ms Ita Buttrose AC, OBE presented at the October Business Month’s Women in Business luncheons.

Ms Buttrose is the current chair of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), a former television and radio personality, author and former magazine editor, publishing executive and newspaper journalist.

While Ms Buttrose’ legacy holds many honours, the more notable ones include:

  • Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
  • The Companion of the Order of Australia (AC)
  • The Australian Government's Centenary Medal.

With Ms Buttrose’ profile and extensive career in both business and technology, the luncheons were a unique opportunity to see a truly exceptional trailblazing Australian.

Digital Futures is proud to sponsor the live stream of Ms Buttrose’s Darwin presentation.

Read more about Ita.

Digital Futures